I want to differentiate between packages that I have explicitly installed, and packages pulled in as dependency. You can do that by using the --not-required option:
pip3 list --not-required --format freeze
However if I have a package that requires for example the requests package, then it will be automatically pulled in, if installed via requirements.txt. Installing requests via pip install requests will not put it in the list of --not-required packages. Not even adding it to the requirements.txt file would help setting this packages as required.
It seems that pip will always exclude those sub dependencies and only print those packages that are not dependent by another package. Is that true? How could I work around that without adding additional dependencies for package management. It seems that there is no such clever builtin option, right?
